Caught up with Dave James and family on the weekend, showed Dave some software I have been using and he's getting all fired up about remastering some of his old stuff which will be great.
(Picture above taken by Holly when we were out for a walk)
We did quite a bit together in the early eighties, but never got anywhere with it because of two main reasons 1) we didn't have the fire in our bellies to go for broke, and 2) we were a bit crap!.
That's not saying that what we came up with together ,and individually, did not have its merits, because some of it is very good and probably worth a rework. We just weren't up to scratch in those days.
If you are a nostalgia monkey like Dave it certainly spells good times revisiting these bits a pieces we put together back then. I prefer to remember the feeling of doing something totally new (even if it was not executed that well). It's the same buzz I get now when I put something together (even corporate intros), the feeling of achievement and creativity. Knowing what you did is totally yours.
Dave Stewart once said he wished someone would develop a mixing desk with a urinal attached, because in his words "sometimes you finish a song and listen back the to the mix and its so good you want to piss yourself". I totally get that.
Song for today has just be chosen by my youngest daughter as she sits on the loo. A track from Howard Jone's album 'Revolution of the Heart'.
This is happy, synthy, bouncy and always requested on the journeys home from school.
"Just look at you now, riding on that silver wave
That keeps on going, through the sun and through the rain,
Through the good and the bad times
Through the joy and through the pain"
A great artist still writing great songs.
